What does Virginia gubernatorial candidate Brian Moran think is the weak spot of rival Terry McAuliffe? Not his claim to have “been an African-American barber.” Not his lack of experience in Richmond. Not the Democrats’ lack of success in the years he ran the DNC.

Nope. It’s for accepting fundraising help from GOP strategist Ed Rogers.

Democrat Brian Moran chastised McAuliffe for teaming up Tuesday with Ed Rogers, a lobbyist and frequent TV commentator who carried the Republican message last year with pointed references to President Obama’s middle name, Hussein.
The jab from Moran, an Alexandria lawyer, represented the first skirmish in a three-way Democratic primary that is likely to become increasingly sharp-edged as Moran and state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds of Bath seek to offset McAuliffe’s high-wattage personality and ability to raise money.
Moran’s campaign manager, Andrew Roos, said that McAuliffe’s willingness to take money from a Republican operative who fought Obama is “unconscionable” and “no different than having a fundraiser with Rush Limbaugh.” But a fundraiser Tuesday hosted in part by Rogers illustrates something else, too, Roos said: McAuliffe’s deep ties to the political culture of Washington and its lobbying industry.
“These are the people that have made ‘lobbyist’ a bad word for so many Americans,” Roos said.

I think Ed Rogers would be flattered by the comparison to Rush Limbaugh.